Live Blogging South Carolina Republican Debate

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I'm interested to see how the candidates behave toward each other. Will there be a Bain attack? Will Mitt Romney try to defend his record as a "vulture" capitalist? Where will Ron Paul fit in all this?

Grab the popcorn and pull up a chair!

I was posting in the comments but I think I'll start posting here.

10 PM Here we go again

10:06 PM Paul asks why we didn't try to get information from Bin Laden instead of just killing him. Crowd boos. Gingrich talks up killing enemies and the crowd cheers.

10:06 Paul suggests "golden rule" in nations and the crowd boos.

10:07 Paul: This nation doesn't need another war. The crowd sheers.

10:14 Perry: Obama's foreign policy alienates our allies and emboldens our enemies.

10:14 Here comes Perry saying Obama has "disdain for our country" over reaction to marines urinating on dead.

10:17 Romney getting booed for supporting the latest detainee detention act.

10:31 Gingrich and Santorum debate Social Security. Fairly substantive.

10:34 Social issues up next.

10:39 Williams asked Romney about his "varmint" hunting. Romney admits he's not much of a hunter... after saying he hunted moose, oops, elk recently.

10:51 Debate over. Hannity next!

Here are previous comments:

“Only the elites despise earning money,” Gingrich.

Gingrich defending his Janitorial work for poor kids.

Juan Williams asking about the DREAM Act… Romney ducking.

Santorum is nailing Romney on restoring voting rights to felons.

Paul’s funny line: His only regret about negative ads is that he didn’t have enough time to get everything he wanted in about Santorum’s record.

Here’s Romney’s “I feel your pain” moment.

Perry asked Romney to release his tax returns and crowd cheers.

Romney said he “turned around tough situations.”

Here we go! First question to Newt Gingrich on the Romney attacks – which I think Gingrich dodged. Baier now following up.

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commented 2012-01-17 03:23:16 -0500 · Flag

Tough crowd. The Mitt and Ronny received boos from the audience. We can’t wait until election day.

commented 2012-01-17 03:20:31 -0500 · Flag

Sorry, Guest Blogger is I… using a different browser.

commented 2012-01-17 00:33:43 -0500 · Flag

Jeff Lunt wrote: If the Fed gets out of directing public Ed, and the states give up control to cities and towns (as Newt said to huge applause), how will the conservatives mandate prayer in school, require teaching creationism, and keep birth control info (other than abstinence) out of the classroom?

So true! They’ll have to turn the schools over to Focus on the Family!

commented 2012-01-16 23:02:54 -0500 · Flag

Frank Luntz thinks Gingrich won, predicts Gingrich will rise in polls.

commented 2012-01-16 23:00:52 -0500 · Flag

My feeling is nobody did anything to stop Romney.

commented 2012-01-16 22:54:01 -0500 · Flag

Fox asked its viewers to tweet “answer” or “dodge.” Hahaha!

commented 2012-01-16 22:53:31 -0500 · Flag

Romney got the most “dodged” votes via Twitter.

commented 2012-01-16 21:53:53 -0500 · Flag

“Only the elites despise earning money,” Gingrich.

commented 2012-01-16 21:53:30 -0500 · Flag

Gingrich defending his Janitorial work for poor kids.

commented 2012-01-16 21:45:32 -0500 · Flag

Juan Williams asking about the DREAM Act… Romney ducking.

commented 2012-01-16 21:39:54 -0500 · Flag

I just got here. Is Herman Cain president yet?

With all my love,
Aunty Em

commented 2012-01-16 21:26:15 -0500 · Flag

Thanks anyway! ^_ I’ve Turned off all ad blocking and it’s now buffering! it’s bloody slow though…

commented 2012-01-16 21:23:41 -0500 · Flag

No, can’t embed the video.

commented 2012-01-16 21:22:32 -0500 · Flag

I wonder if I can embed that video…

commented 2012-01-16 21:22:16 -0500 · Flag

Bill, It’s working for me. I have to disable all kinds of blocks before Fox News videos work for me.

commented 2012-01-16 21:20:50 -0500 · Flag

Santorum is nailing Romney on restoring voting rights to felons.

commented 2012-01-16 21:16:39 -0500 · Flag

can somebody check live.foxnews.com for me!! can’t get the live stream to run :(

commented 2012-01-16 21:16:32 -0500 · Flag

Paul’s funny line: His only regret about negative ads is that he didn’t have enough time to get everything he wanted in about Santorum’s record.

commented 2012-01-16 21:12:16 -0500 · Flag

Here’s Romney’s “I feel your pain” moment.

commented 2012-01-16 21:10:47 -0500 · Flag

Perry asked Romney to release his tax returns and crowd cheers.

commented 2012-01-16 21:08:35 -0500 · Flag

Romney said he “turned around tough situations.”

commented 2012-01-16 21:06:00 -0500 · Flag

Here we go! First question to Newt Gingrich on the Romney attacks – which I think Gingrich dodged. Baier now following up.

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